Subj : Creating message menu
To   : Amessyroom
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Sep 24 2024 11:16 pm

  Re: Creating message menu
  By: Amessyroom to All on Tue Sep 24 2024 10:41 pm

 > I've taken code from default.js to create a message menu but there are
 > two components, that I don't understand that are in the code:
 > What are node_action: value? NODE_XFER was just copied from the file
 > menu definition.

"XFER" in this context means "file transfer". Probably not what you want.
The possible values for the node_action can be found in load/nodedefs.js.
For a "message menu", you'd probably want to use NODE_RMSG (reading messages).

 > What is the "eval: 'bbs.messages_cmds++' used for?

It's not. I suspect you might've create that property yourself via search/replace maybe? The built-in command counters are bbs.main_cmds and bbs.xfer_cmds and their used for special actions that only occur before/during/after a specific number of user commands have been entered. It's not a common use case. If you want to create and increment bbs.message_cmds in your script, that's fine. No harm.
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